By Jessica Drouet - Barry University
Photographer: FILE PHOTO
The Tower that marks the location of Barry University, as seen along I-95.
MIAMI SHORES | Barry University will host an exciting line-up of activities during this year’s Founders’ Week, to mark its 75th anniversary and honor its rich Adrian Dominican heritage. The celebrations will begin Monday, Nov. 9, and conclude Saturday, Nov. 14.
“Founders’ Week includes celebratory, recreational, and scholarly activities that highlight the many ways our university community expresses and exemplifies Barry’s mission, identity, and core commitments,” said Barry’s president, Adrian Dominican Sister Linda Bevilacqua.
Barry was founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters as a small women’s college. It now offers more than 100 bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree programs with a co-ed enrollment of nearly 9,000 students, with more than 60,000 alums worldwide. It has a 122-acre main campus in Miami Shores; the Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law campus in Orlando; and satellite locations in 10 Florida counties, the Bahamas, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The community is invited to join in the university’s 75th anniversary celebration by taking part in these Founders’ Week events:
- Monday, Nov. 9, 3 p.m.: Founders' Week Mass and reception, and dedication of St. Dominic statue, Cor Jesu Chapel
- Tuesday, Nov. 10, 6 p.m.: Author Jo Piazza discusses her book, “If Nuns Ruled the World: Sisters on a Mission”; reception, book signing, keynote address and panel with Adrian Dominican Sisters, Broad Auditorium
- Wednesday, Nov. 11, 6:30 p.m.: St. Catherine of Siena brought to life by Adrian Dominican Sister Nancy Murray, Cor Jesu Chapel; preceded at 5:30 p.m. by reception and 75th anniversary historical photos display at Gato Gallery in Thompson Hall
- Thursday, Nov. 12, 2 p.m.: Barry Community Fest: Music Through the Decades, Campus Mall
- Friday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m.: Men's Basketball Game to start the season, Gymnasium
- Saturday, Nov. 14, 9 a.m.: Founders' 5K Fun Run (formerly the Gobble Wobble) for the whole family, Campus Mall.
